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Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 180th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (25th – 31st July, 2010), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

3. Do I have as much at stake as some other Lib Dems? on Mark Thompson’s Mark Reckons.
A relative Lib Dem newbie’s angst at the prospect of any post-coalition collapse: “Those who have dedicated the majority of their lives to the cause will surely feel the loss more keenly than I?”

7. Nick Clegg and U Turns on Mark Yeates’ …and one more thing!
Following Nick’s revelation that he believed in cuts even before the formation of the Coalition, the question is asked: “Why did the leader of the party fight on a policy he no longer believed in?”

And now to the five blog-posts that come highly recommended, regardless of the number of Aggregator click-throughs they attracted. These are normally chosen using the LibDig bookmarking website for party members, the site where you can highlight blog-posts you want to share with your fellow Lib Dems. Remember, though, you’re still more than welcome to nominate for the Golden Dozen a Lib Dem blog article published in the past seven days – your own, or someone else’s – using the steam-powered method of e-mail … all you have to do is drop a line to stephen – stephen.hat.libdemvoice.org.spam.com (this is spam bot hidden email address, replace .hat. with @ and remove .spam.com for the real one).

8. No Labour, we did not sell our souls to the devil on Lisa Harding’s Spiderplant Land.
“Spidey gives Labour some very good advice. I doubt they’ll take it, but she’s right that they need to lose their sense of entitlement to power and start contributing properly to future policy debates.” (Submitted by caron via LibDig).

9. Labour Campaign for Deeper Cuts on Joe Otten’s Extra Bold.
“If your policy leads to a bigger debt than the other lot, the in the long run you are the attacker not the defender of public services.”

12. Is Trident In Trouble? on The Futility Monster’s blog.
“Has Danny Alexander managed to persuade Osborne that, OK, we can’t cut Trident altogether, but can we at least do something – and give a credible, financial excuse – which forces the whole project to be reassessed?”

And that’s it for another week. Happy blogging ‘n’ reading ‘n’ nominating.